Car parks

[jim8flog]

How could it possibly be more convenient to walk all the way into a locker room carrying one pair of shoes, then change them and walk back carrying the other pair, rather than just changing them where you stand??

Our locker room is closer to the first tee and point where you walk off from the 18th green than a large number of the car parking spaces

So it is walk to the locker room change your shoes, walk to the locker room change your shoes.

 

[jim8flog]

Is a car park similar to a parking lot?

Ours used to be paradise.

 

[backwoodsman]

I played at a course on Monday where the car park was 100m from the clubhouse but 20m from the 1st tee. I would have to have walked past the tee, kept on going and then do the reverse. Makes no sense. In most cases it is much less convenient, adds time and distance, none of which is logical.

For clubs where there is no rule I doubt if more than 10% of people change shoes in the changing rooms and I suspect that is overly optimistic still.

Point taken.

But, on the other hand, in 25 years or so of playing golf, I can't recall more than a handful of times where I've wanted to walk straight from the car directly on to the tee. Theres usually something to do, someone to see, or something to be eaten before going out .

 

[jim8flog]

What would happen if you did arrive wearing golf shoes, and then explained to the person telling you off that you also wore your golf shoes as normal casual wear, and so you actually didn't need to change shoes at any point through the day?

Clearly someone with no intention of going in to the bar then.

 

[Wolf]

Clearly someone with no intention of going in to the bar then.

And there's nothing wrong with that...

 

[robinthehood]

Clearly someone with no intention of going in to the bar then.

Its not mandatory.

 

[jim8flog]

And there's nothing wrong with that...

Its not mandatory.

A large part of the joy of golf for me is the banter with the lads in the bar after the game, luckily I am no longer a family man so have the time but I fully understand those that having other pressing issues to attend to.

 

[IanM]

Ours used to be paradise.

One for the oldies! TAXI!

..... I used to be a member at Bowood... the car park is nearer 1st and 10th tees than the locker room... virtually everyone changes shoes in car park... no one has died as a result!

 

[Slime]

I change into my golf shoes at home, end of story.

 

[USER1999]

What would happen if you did arrive wearing golf shoes, and then explained to the person telling you off that you also wore your golf shoes as normal casual wear, and so you actually didn't need to change shoes at any point through the day?

I wear a pair of ecco golf shoes to work every day. They are tan leather, and look like normal shoes. I often wear them to the club. As long as they have never been on the golf course they are fine. Once I have worn them on course, I will no longer be able to wear them in the club house. Obviously I have never worn them on the course. Yeah. For sure. Never. Hmm. Really?

 

[ScienceBoy]

Car parks at golf clubs are great places to:

1. Change shoes
2. Clean shoes
3. Change clothes
4. Drink
5. Eat sandwiches

 

[Lord Tyrion]

lihe a cocktail fork mind you as soon as he was out the water the dirty bugger wanted to know the best place in sneck to go on the pull, i suggested the Tarry Isl, love to know how he got on

I'd be willing to bet at least 50p that he did very well indeed. A friend of mine lived in Notting hill for a while and would see him every so often in fashionable local bars, no I am not mixing the film up with real life. He never left on his own, was never short of an offer, didn't have to do much at all. Just be himself. My mate never spoke to him but liked him. Always a smile and a glint in his eye. Bugger can play golf well as well ?

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

Clearly someone with no intention of going in to the bar then.

We used to wear our steel spikes in the bar.
It was a different world, I guess.

 

[richart]

We used to wear our steel spikes in the bar.
It was a different world, I guess.

Sounds like a spikes bar ? Had one at my first club, but haven’t seen one recently.

 

[Deleted member 23344]

I did once hear of a guy at the West Sussex who actually lost his membership because he changed his shoes in the car park. Not sure if he was a repeat offender ... can’t help thinking that there must have been other issues and this was an easy way to give him his marching orders.

 

[Tashyboy]

I did once hear of a guy at the West Sussex who actually lost his membership because he changed his shoes in the car park. Not sure if he was a repeat offender ... can’t help thinking that there must have been other issues and this was an easy way to give him his marching orders.

A flogging would of sufficed for such a heinous crime.

 

[Imurg]

I find it interesting that the general view seems to be to ignore this club rule but adhere to, arguably, equally ridiculous dress code club rules...
Seems we pick and choose which rules to follow and which to ignore...

 

[patricks148]

I'd be willing to bet at least 50p that he did very well indeed. A friend of mine lived in Notting hill for a while and would see him every so often in fashionable local bars, no I am not mixing the film up with real life. He never left on his own, was never short of an offer, didn't have to do much at all. Just be himself. My mate never spoke to him but liked him. Always a smile and a glint in his eye. Bugger can play golf well as well ?

not in the Tarry he didn't

 

[robinthehood]

I find it interesting that the general view seems to be to ignore this club rule but adhere to, arguably, equally ridiculous dress code club rules...
Seems we pick and choose which rules to follow and which to ignore...

Not really, it's a bit of a daft rule thats
Just particularly easy to flaunt.

 

[Imurg]

Not really, it's a bit of a daft rule thats
Just particularly easy to flaunt.

So...because it's easy to get away with we dont have to follow it..?
Surely a club rule is a club rule, no matter how absurd we may think it is...